By far the most exciting news for this period is
Kate's team winning the DBH 2C Division. DBH is an indoor women's tennis
league that includes most of the Eastern Massachusetts Tennis clubs. The teams rank from DBH 4 to DBH 1
(1 being the highest). Kate's team has automatically
been bumped up to DBH 1A.

The All Seasons DBH 2 Central team

Other stuff... we went to see "The Blue Man Group"
in Boston, which was fun, noisy, and weird. A lot more slap-stick
comedy than you'd expect, but good clean fun, unless you are sitting in
the front row like we were, in which case it's good, wet, splattered
with mashed banana fun.

Brie went to the High School semi-formal
with her friends. This required several hours of preparation with
assistance from Mom and our neighbor, Sheira.

For Easter, we had
a visit from Lisa Garber, Kate's step-sister, who was in Boston presenting a paper at a
conference on pop culture.

And in late April, Will flew down to
Evert Tennis Academy in Florida to attend a week-long tennis camp
during school break, missing a week that was filled with hideous cold,
sleety rain and gusting winds that made the rest of the family hate him.

Dave took a day off during the break and went with Kate and
Brie to see the Darwin exhibit at the Museum of Science in Boston.

Blue Man Group... messy, slapstick fun

Prep for the semi-formal

Brie and girlfriends are ready to tear up the dance floor (and
boy's hearts)

Tasha remains insanely cute and dare we say "bubbly"
and the kids humiliate her for it... Patrick, More handsome than cute
and very, very fluffy

And then there's the guns... I bought my "black
rifle," a Bushmaster DCM competition AR-15. Will likes the iron
sites, I like the scope, which gives me about a 2 inch diameter grouping
at 100 yards. That is, I can pick off a chipmunk on the other side
of a football field. If the chipmunk doesn't move, that is.
And I have a sandbag to steady the rifle on. And no wind.